Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1887-04-01

Give fools their gold X knaves their pONve
Let fortunes bubbles rise and fail;
Who sOxvs a field trains a flower.
Or plants a tree. Is more than all.
Agricultural Notes.

chickens or to keep poultry through
the winter and spring without a plenti-
full supply Of dry earth. The best time
to store it is whenever it is dry.
Roots are valuable aids to digestion
when given in connection with grain
food, bat when feed exclusively or
given lavishlv they have a too laxative
effect, which quickly runs down the
sheep.
An excellent method OF utilizing the
hay seed and dust is to place it where
the hens Can scratch it over. They
will find quite an amonnt Of valuable
material which would be useless for
any other purpose.
Sheep reqaire careful watching, for
if they get into trouble Of any sort, as
getting down in gullies or fastened in
between logs or fence rails, they be-
come so frightened they succumb at
once and die.
If a Holstein COW give forty quarts
of milk per day. and requiring no more
room than common COW giving ten
quarts, can be raised as easily as the
inferior one is it wise in farmers to
keep the poor milker:
The annual product of maple sugar
in the United States is estimated at
100000 pounds. 1t would be much
larger if farmers prepared for sugar
making in winter, so as to be in readl-
ness when the seasons opens.
The agricultural fairs of 1886 showed
more and better horses than ever be-
fore There is no branch of our i'm
proved stock breeding as progressive
and prosperous as the draught horse
interest, nor any one that is as profita-
BILE.
The white -leaved and weeping lin.
dens are among the most useful lawn
trees for our climate. They are hardy,
AID injurious insects and destructive
diseases appear to pass by them, and,
while their growth is quite rapid, the
foliage of each is singularly beautiful
and tenacious.
The Lincoln are the largest breed OF
sheep in the world having, in some
instances attained gross weight of
400 pounds. They yield a beautiful
fleece of lustrous wool about two inches
in length, and weighing from eight to
fifteen pounds. They are not very
popular in this country because they
require too much care to suit the ordi-
nary farmer.
1t is said that ''New York dairymen
hsfe discovered that barley sprouts,
which are extensively used in some
sections in feeding cows, are in large
degree adulterated with fine cinders
and ashes of hard coal. One lot of
sprouts, consigned by large Western
malt house, mas been found to contain
fully Is per cent. of authorizations,
rendering the feed indigestible and un-
wholesome"
A Boston paper says that English
beef is no longer the beet in the world,
but its mutton maintains its superior
ity, and it is largely fattened on tur-
nips. Their offensive taste in milk
when fed to nlilch cows does not ap-
pear in the meat. While not them
selves very nutritious, yet turnips pro-
mote good digestion, on which rapid
fattening and the good juicy quality
of the meat largely depends.
Bloat in calves is really an acute at
tack of indigestion, which often proves
fatal almost Immediately. Taken In
time it may be relieved by teaspoon
full each OF baking soda and ground
ginger dissolved in quarter of pint
Of boiling water and poured down the
calf's throat. To do this long necked
bottle may be used. Rub the stomach
briskly, and make the calf move about,
if possible, to get rid of the wind.
When cornstalks are to be used for
fodder husk the corn rs soon as hard
ard the stalks are cured, and haul the
stalks ia at once or if that be not pos
sible stack them carefully temporarily
and allow them to be exposed as little
as possible to rain, as the butt ends
pump the water up from the ground
and ruin the fodder. Keep them in a
NOW and mix them with little dry
straw. They are sweet and nourishing.
Alsike clover is now so common that
its seed costs little more per bushel
than the common clover. 1t is not
more than half the size of the latter,
and four or five quarts are as good a
seeding as peck Of the common red
variety. But if one of the main OBJ
iects is improvement of the soil, the
mammoth variety Of red clover, some
times called pea-vine, should be sown.
1t has heavy, coarse stalks and roots
correspondingly large and deep.
If any one will 60 over a corn-field
in spring after frost is out of the
ground he will find many of the corn
stubs tilted over by the frost, and all
SO loosened that they will uproot cas-
lily. This shows that they lie mainly
near the surface, and gives a hint as
to the best method of culture during
the growing season. With fiat culture
the roots stand frmest. Where a
mound of earth is made around the
corn the frost almost entirely uproots
it.
Loosely plowed soil is to be deeply
and frequently frozen during the win
ter, and in an exposed situation or on
a side hill it is certain to waste mater
tally, both by washing away and blow
ing off. A good covering of winter
rye will shield the surface from blow
ing, ana its roots will not only pro-
tect the soil from washing away, but
will seize any soluble plant food in the
soil and hold it from passing away